8 Fascinating Newsreels From a Giant Treasure Trove Now on YouTube

Today , newsreel seem like a thing of the past — an outmoded medium that feels ancient in comparison to the elbow room we consumer media today . But they dominated much of the twentieth century , and now , the AP and British Movietone have uploadedmore than one million minutes of them to YouTube .

The new upload contain 550,000 videosdating back to 1895 , unfold across the two organizations ’ YouTube channels . On British Movietone you ’ll find an enormous amount of former 20th - 100 material , while the AP ’s channel spans more than the full century , include plenty of color footage and semi - recent current event . “ At AP we are always amaze at the sheer comprehensiveness of footage that we have approach to , and the upload to YouTube means that , for the first time , the public can enjoy some of the oldest and most remarkable second in account , ” the AP ’s director of international archive , Alwyn Lindsey , said in a financial statement .

Browsing think them would take hour , but those would be hr well - spent — here are a few interesting moments we found while pasture today .